User blog comment:Bartholomew Billberry Bowstring/Mossflower Country & Beyond/@comment-3474228-20111122221341/@comment-3474228-20111127211124

Sterling stops short and falls to the deck as the knife sails overhead. "Now, Flupp!" An otter heaves a flaming torch over the heads of the vermin and into the storage room. Suddenly, an explosion rocks the ship, sending every beast wobbling about the deck. Sterling stays put on the ground and shoots off three arrows in quick succession at the vermin who are guarding the storage rooms.

The crow's nest archer looks up apprehensively at the wildcat, but when the ship rocks back and forth, he leaps up, staggering sideways, and hurls himself at the wildcat with his knife outstretched.